Michael A. Kirtland
Law Office of Catherine Anne Seal
Michael A. Kirtland is a partner in the Colorado Springs law firm Kirtland & Seal, L.L.C. His practice is concentrated in the areas of trusts and estates, estate planning, wills, probate and ancillary probate, elder law, guardianship and conservatorship, marital agreements, and taxation related to those areas. He also does mediation in these areas of practice. Mr. Kirtland was admitted to practice in Alabama in 1994 and in Colorado in 2004. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District of Alabama and the District of Colorado, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Tenth and Eleventh Circuits, the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He attended Coe College, where he received his B.A. in 1974, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he received an M.P.A., summa cum laude, in 1981. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Faulkner University in 1993, and his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Alabama in 1999.
Mr. Kirtland is a member of the El Paso County, Colorado, and American bar associations. He is the past-chair of the El Paso County Bar Association Probate Section. He is the past co-chair of the Colorado Bar Association Elder Law Section and is a member of the Trust and Estate and Alternative Dispute Resolution sections. He is a member of the American Bar Association Senior Lawyers Division (where he served as a Council member) and the sections on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, of which he is past chair of the Elder Law Group. Mr. Kirtland is a member of the Ethics Committee of the El Paso County Medical Society and the Ethics Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, as well as being a member of the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility.
Mr. Kirtland is the past chair of the Judicial Performance Commission for the Fourth Judicial District of Colorado. He belongs to the Alabama State Bar (where he is a Registered Mediator), the American Inns of Court in Colorado Springs, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National Elder Law Foundation, where he is a past member of the Board of Directors, the Air Force Association, and the Military Officers Association of America. Mr. Kirtland is one of only eight Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Colorado.
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